Newt Gingrich: “let me say first of all that on this 91st day, I want to thank everyone on both sides of the aisle. This has been an…”

“let me say first of all that on this 91st day, I want to thank everyone on both sides of the aisle. This has been an immense amount of work. And despite the occasional rancor directed at me personally, I think frankly everything has gone about as well as we could have hoped. And I think that the transfer of power which is one of the great acts of majesty in our system, the willingness to work together, getting through a lot of tough decisions, a lot of tough things, that the American people can be proud of the U.S. House for what we have done together in 91 days, and I thank every Member on both sides for the spirit, sometimes deeply disagreeing, sometimes voting unanimously, but working together very long hours for a very long time. I find, standing here tonight, a truly historic and at the same time a truly personal experience. Two years ago we were debating a tax increase, and all of our friends on the other side of the aisle were saying, ``It will be OK,'' and by a one-vote margin, they passed it. But the country said it was not OK to raise taxes, that Government was too big, it spends too much, and it needs to be brought under control. We were given an opportunity to try to be helpful. On the opening day, we spent 14 hours together, and we passed nine reforms. We applied to the Congress every law which applies to the rest of the country.…”